Re: QEQM sapphire and diamond flower brooch Archived Message
Posted by LDMJ  on September 4, 2014, 8:29 am, in reply to "Re: QEQM sapphire and diamond flower brooch"
Thank you Arthur - I am sure that there is no doubt, I wish only to keep abreast of the topic.
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: I have the 2002 reprint of the 1997 edition of
: Leslie Field's The Queen's Jewels .
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: The Queen Mother's sapphire and diamond
: flower brooch is not presented with a full
: page dedicated to it, with illustrative
: pictures. It is only mentioned, without
: pictures, at the bottom of the page 146 of
: my edition (the excerpt I have quoted in my
: previous post). But the description matches
: so perfectly the brooch we are discussing,
: that I think there is no doubt about it.
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: --Previous Message--
: Thank you - I have Field's tome of the Royal
: Jewels and this brooch is not in it, also
: the brooch would still have been with the
: Queen Mother at the time of publication 1987
: & 1992, so I would be interested to know
: which of Leslie Field's books you have with
: this in it - so that I can then try to
: acquire a copy
:
: --Previous Message--
: According to Field, the Queen Mother's
: brooch
: was a birthday gift from King George VI. And
: QEQM wore this brooch from the late
: 1930s/early 1940s on, so long before
: Princess Marina's death (on the picture
: posted by Nellie, Princess Marina is wearing
: her pair of brooches in May 1946).
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: It is possible that Cartier (by whom both
: King George VI and his brother the Duke of
: Kent were clients) had several exemplars of
: these brooches made, and that both royal
: brothers chose (deliberately or not) the
: same jewel for their respective wives.
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: I wonder if Princess Marina might not have
: left the brooch (or both) to the Queen
: Mother?
: I doubt that they would have both had the
: same brooch at the same time.
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